Last year I crowned my self the "king of the one pounders" ,and rarely
caught anything over 3 lbs. [maybe twice]. This year I've got a 6 lb 14 oz
and a couple of 2 lb.er's and a couple of 1 lb.er's.But overall I don't
catch many big fish.


Ken
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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I catch some keepers almost everytime out, but they are just that.
Keepers.
Sure I have shown a few pictures of bigger fish, and other guys in the
area
seem to weigh in some bigger fish at almost every tournament, but so far
this year my biggest personal catch was about 4.5lbs with the biggest in a
tournament of about 3.25. I seem to be catching a lot of fish in the 1.2
to
1.7 lb range, and a few dinks.

I read a lot of you guys making posts of catching 5 pound fish quite
often,
but I am curious. How many times do you go out to catch the bigger fish,
and of those 5 pound + how many actually got put on the scale?

I have fished Yuma Bassmasters for almost a year and a half as a
non-boater,
and I have noticed that almost everybody tends to substantially
overestimate
the size of a fish. I try very hard to make a mental guess at the size of
a
fish, and then check it with a scale. I usually come out pretty close.
The
worst I have been off is with the bigger fish. Probably because I haven't
caught that many. I tend to see a 7.1-3 lb fish and think 8 lbs.

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